To remind the graduates of how they survived the pandemic situation, Robredo shared a “personal mantra”—a word that she brings with her as a now-private citizen participating in the development sector.
“That word is solidarity. Taken within the context of your graduation, solidarity could mean very simply that none of us ever gets to where we want to be on our own. This is the truth we all know in your bones but can be obscured by the weight of our personal struggles our individual hard work by all of the things that that we did on our own,” Robredo said.
“Once we begin to understand this, solidarity takes on another perhaps deeper meaning. We realize that just as we are never the sole and final cause of our achievements, so should we never be its endpoint,” Robredo said.The former public servant also didn’t miss the opportunity to discuss at length the fight that most student activists in the UP system are engaged in: the fight against oppression.
For Robredo, the opposite of solidarity is selfishness, and the same would be the root of all authoritative regimes waging war on the country’s poor, dissent, and the truth. “When I saw peers even younger than I was throwing themselves at picket lines, raising their voices with millions to assert their right to a free future, I began to see firsthand how structural ills can only be healed through collective action and how collective action is only possible if we see others with equal dignity and therefore equal agency,” Robredo said.
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